79 Nuisance Quotes

Following is our list of nuisance quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about what to say to nuisance callers.

Famous Nuisance Quotes

Property is a nuisance. — Paul Erdos

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. — John Stuart Mill

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. — Ovid

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. — Mark Twain

An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity. — Confucius

Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance. — Paul Erdos

How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh. — H. L. Mencken

You will stir up the hornets. [Lat., Irritabis crabones.] — Plautus

Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you. — Gustav Holst

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying. — William Kunstler

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. — William S. Burroughs

There is an increasing sense of what can be called legal pollution. — Thomas Ehrlich

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days. — Plautus

Minor inconveniences are just that, and nothing more. — Isaac Mashman

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. — Ezra Pound

Short Nuisance Quotes

• If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance. — Augustus
• If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance — Margery Allingham
• What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance? — Colleen McCullough
• The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one. — George Bernard Shaw
• One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done. — Freya Stark
• I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. — Edith Sitwell
• Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. — Emile Zola
• You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends. — Rumer Godden
• What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. — Havelock Ellis

Public Nuisance Quotes

There's a legal term for a problem in public space: something that might draw people to an area-say, across train tracks-where they might be caused harm. It's called a 'public nuisance.' I wouldn't mind being called that for my life's work. — Vito Acconci

I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance. — Thomas Beecham

I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares? — Montgomery Clift

Cleverness becomes a public nuisance. — Oscar Wilde

Being covered in white paint, you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance, which did in fact cause offence to members of the public, and created a breach of the peace and public order. — Gunter Brus

Nuisance Value Quotes

In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there. — Nadine Gordimer

Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may. — Sally Stanford

We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility - in other people. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance. — Edgar Friedenberg

People Writing About Nuisance

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Paul Erdos quotes on leadership, education and love	26	552
Plautus quotes on war, play	265	1583
John Stuart Mill quotes on freedom, utilitarianism and democracy	352	2612
Ovid quotes on love, death	714	3612
Mark Twain quotes on life, travel and love	2433	47813
Confucius quotes on life, aging and education	911	18025

More Nuisance Quotes

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card. — Charles Baudelaire

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure. — Augustus

Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves. — Lyndon LaRouche

Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster. — Geert Hofstede

Practically everybody knows what its like to feel anxious, worried, nervous, afraid, uptight, or panicky. Often, anxiety is just a nuisance, but sometimes it can cripple you and prevent you from doing what you really want with your life. But I have some great news for you: You can change the way you feel. — David D. Burns

We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance. — Ingrid Newkirk

Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance. — Neil Welliver

I became an entrepreneur because I wanted to innovate to improve people’s lives, not to become a pesky, spam-crazy nuisance. — Cliff Lerner

I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now. — Amory Lovins

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance. — Baruch Spinoza

How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same. — Vita Sackville-West

Parades should be classed as a Nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison. They stop more work, inconvenience more people, stop more traffic, cause more accidents, entail more expense, and commit and cause I don't remember the other hundred misdemeanors. — Will Rogers

Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace. — George Jonas

Before that I had largely thought of selling as just a way of making a living for myself. I had dreaded to go in to see people, for fear I was making a nuisance of myself. But now I was inspired! I resolved right then to dedicate the rest of my selling career to this principle: finding out what people want, and helping them get it. — Frank Bettger

Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures. — Barry Commoner

A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted. — Robert Reich

Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere. — William H. Stewart

Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between barren ease and rich unrest – or rather, one does not choose. — Vera Brittain

You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw. — Robert M. Hutchins

So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'. — Frank Carson

I don't drive often, because the parking makes it too much of a nuisance. And I could never go back to commuting or anything. I'd just get fed up with it. — Raymond Pettibon

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. — Neil Gaiman

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. — Oscar Wilde

There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man. — Bertrand Russell

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